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More than a hundred organisations including job aspirants' collectives have joined hands to form a youth alliance named 'Sanyukt Yuva Morcha' with an aim to shape a "nationwide youth movement" for employment, a member of the group said on Tuesday. The group said it will launch campaigns for a 'right to employment' as a legal guarantee for every adult, and will also fight for a basic minimum wage. The group will also demand filling up of all vacant posts in the public sector in a "fair and time bound manner." Bihar and Madhya Pradesh teacher aspirants, Uttar Pradesh police candidates, army and railway candidates, ASHA workers, and several other such groups have come together from over 22 states including Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Jammu and Kashmir to take the campaign forward, according to a statement by the group. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who is backing the campaign, said that the group has the "potential to become a movement bigger than the Lokpal." "There is a lot of ...

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The blue-collar industry has witnessed a sharp rise in job opportunities in the country and tier 2 cities have become the epicenters for such opportunities, said a report. According to professional networking and jobs platform apna.co, blue-collared job opportunities more than doubled in India in 2022 and growth was also visible in all top metropolitan cities such as Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Delhi. "The emergence of tier-II cities becoming epicenters for opportunities has also been phenomenal. We believe that the evolving ecosystem of the rising workforce led by SMBs and MSMEs will become an integral contributor to the growth of the Indian economy," Manas Singh, Chief Business Officer of apna.co, said. The apna jobs platform recorded a 25 per cent increase in its employer base, which was majorly led by Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs), and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in 2022. Jobs posted by SMBs clocked a 60 per cent surge year-on-year. These emerging small busine

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Professionals and students striving to make themselves future-ready, future-proof

As a result, vacancies and the number of people placed in roles both rose at the slowest pace in more than a year and a half

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The report further revealed that tier-II cities are now frontrunners in hiring with Coimbatore and Ahmedabad, indicating growing demand for talent across segments.

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India is still far behind the US, China and others in public sector employment

The Covid pandemic has given another blow to the opportunities for employment in Pakistan which is shrinking by the day.

China accounted for 86% of the dip in working hours due to containment measures to stop the spread of Covid, according to the report

Increments are yet to reach double digit hikes, it is heartening to see that the phase of salary de-growth and stagnation that have been hovering across the job market in last 2 years nearing its ends

The Monster Employment Index (MEI) showed online recruitment activity exceeded the year-ago level in 11 out of the 13 cities monitored by the index

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